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Intellect Devourer

Creature — Horror3 generic manaBlack mana

Most theft effects grab a single target and stash it: a spell off the top, a creature to control, a graveyard to mine. This Horror widens the heist to the whole table at once, taking exactly one card from each opponent's hand when it lands and holding those cards in exile while it survives. Those cards are yours to play, castable with mana of any color so a stolen dual-colored bomb is never stranded for want of the right source. The two abilities lean on each other by design: one does the taking, the other the spending, and the color-fixing rider means nothing swallowed goes to waste. The leash is what balances it. Anything still exiled returns the instant the creature leaves, so the whole engine hangs on a 2/4 body that every opponent has reason to kill. That turns each removal spell into a rescue mission for whatever got exiled, and forces a small game of chicken: spend the answer now and hand the cards straight back, or let a single fragile creature keep sitting on a pile of borrowed options. It is genuinely multiplayer-native design, where the number of opponents scales the payoff directly and the check on that payoff is not a counter or a tap ability but the plain vulnerability of the thing doing the stealing.

Intellect Devourer (clb)
CLB · #575rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.39
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Devour Intellect — When this creature enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until this creature leaves the battlefield. Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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